CLG News

Little girl died in cot after flu jab 26 Apr 2010 The bereaved father of a toddler who died within a day of receiving the seasonal flu vaccine said last night that he could not believe this was coincidental. David Epapara spoke out after the Queensland Coroner was called in to investigate the little girl's death, which has intensified concern at the risk of side effects from the vaccine to children under five. Two-year-old Ashley Epapara was found dead in her cot on April 9, the morning after she and her twin sister were inoculated by the family GP in Brisbane. Mr Epapara told The Australian yesterday that both children had been "perfectly fine" until they received the combined jab for seasonal flu and swine flu.

Goldman Cited 'Serious' Profit on Mortgages 24 Apr 2010 In late 2007, as the mortgage crisis gained momentum and many banks were suffering losses, Goldman Sachs executives traded e-mail messages saying that they would make "some serious money" betting against the housing markets. The messages, released Saturday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, appear to contradict statements by Goldman that left the impression that the firm lost money on mortgage-related investments. In the messages, Lloyd C. Blankfein, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged in November 2007 that the firm had lost money initially. But it later recovered by making negative bets, known as short positions, to profit as housing prices plummeted.

10 dead in Miss. after tornado, storms hit South 25 Apr 2010 Rescuers spread out Sunday to scour neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children. James Jackson, a deputy state fire marshal, said crews organized at first daylight to resume search and rescue operations. National Guard soldiers blocked the roads, and the occasional emergency vehicle prowled amid the rubble.

Air Force Creates Steering Group For ICBMs 25 Apr 2010 The people in charge of keeping intercontinental ballistic missiles at the ready are teaming up for the first time with those responsible for extending their life. Air Force officials say the ICBM Sustainment General Officer Steering Group held its first meeting this month at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The participants included Air Force nuclear weapons and logistics commanders, plus the commanders from Malmstrom, F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming and Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

In Army's Trauma Care Units, Feeling Warehoused 24 Apr 2010 Created in the wake of the scandal in 2007 over serious shortcomings at [Bush privatized] Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate and return to duty or gently process out of the Army... But interviews with more than a dozen soldiers and health care professionals from Fort Carson’s transition unit, along with reports from other posts, suggest that the units are far from being restful sanctuaries. For many soldiers, they have become warehouses of despair, where damaged men and women are kept out of sight, fed a diet of powerful prescription pills and treated harshly by noncommissioned officers.

11 people injured in Quetta blast 25 Apr 2010 Around 11 people were injured, five of them seriously, in a bomb blast in a confectionary shop at Masjid Road, Sibi, around 160 kilometres from Quetta, on Saturday. According to sources, an unidentified miscreant planted a remote control bomb behind the refrigerator in a confectionary shop. Later on, the bomb exploded injuring 11 people, five of them seriously. ['Unidentified miscreant.' Now that's gotta be Blackwater.]

Quetta police thrash TV journalist for 'negative' reporting 24 Apr 2010 Police on Friday beat up a journalist of a private TV channel at the Brewery Police Station for reporting the police protest demanding a pay raise in a "negative way". Journalist Mustafa Tarin told a press conference that he was going home last night when policemen intercepted him and asked him to show his vehicle’s registration papers... Tarin said that when they reached the police station, the officials started beating him and tore his clothes because journalists had reported the police protest on January 25, 2010, in a "negative way".

A Dozen Baby Ducklings Left Orphaned --Driver Runs Down Mom on Highway 100 09 Apr 2010 (Milwaukee) She was simply trying to cross the road with her baby ducklings in tow, but a driver ran her down and struck the Mallard mom earlier today on Highway 100, killing her. A few stunned passersby stopped to scoop up the babies and one Good Samaritan brought them to the Wisconsin Humane Society’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. "The woman who brought the ducklings in was shocked to watch a driver seemingly run down the poor mother on purpose," said Angela Speed, director of community relations and development at WHS.

Wis. woman braves traffic, saves 14 ducklings 24 Apr 2010 A mother duck didn't survive her walk across a busy Wisconsin roadway, but a motorist made sure the 14 ducklings stayed safe — even one that wiggled under her dashboard. Angela Speed of the Wisconsin Humane Society says the good Samaritan was driving in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb, on Friday when she saw the newly hatched mallards trying to cross a busy road. The woman told Speed that a vehicle in front of her appeared to intentionally hit the mother duck, leaving her ducklings confused in the middle of the road. [One can only hope that the sociopath that intentionally hit the mother duckling meets a similar -- or, better yet -- *exact* fate.]

House passes Vt.'s own take on health reform 23 Apr 2010 Vermont lawmakers made clear Friday that recently enacted federal health care reform did not go far enough toward a public model, passing legislation that could bring to the state the "public option" health insurance rejected by Washington or even a Canadian-style single-payer system. By a vote of 91-42, the Democratic controlled House passed its own version of legislation passed earlier by the Senate. Both bills call for designing a single-payer system, in which a government agency would administer and make all payments for health care.

'The identity of the armed men remains unclear.' Newspaper editor seized in Iraq; whereabouts unknown 22 Apr 2010 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iraqi authorities to clarify the disappearance and current whereabouts of Saad al-Aossi, editor-in-chief of the critical weekly Al-Shahid. Armed men [Blackater terrorists?] entered al-Aossi’s home in central Baghdad on the morning of April 14, seized his computer and took him to an unknown location, according to local and regional news reports.

H1N1 vaccine study investigating 'significant complications' from vaccine 24 Apr 2010 Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm [only when the cover-up reaches critical mass]. The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell's palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. [Wow! This 'I told you so' came much quicker than even *I* had anticipated! And, it's going to be so much better when Baxter's larvae-laden dog cells and E.coli are added to flu vaccines after the 'third wave' of this phony pandemic arrives in the fall. --LRP]

Eyjafjallajokull Photos 19 Apr 2010 As ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans.

Blasts kill 3, injure 19 near Baghdad 24 Apr 2010 Three bomb blasts have killed at least three people and wounded 19 others in Baghdad, which is hit by a new wave of [Blackwater] violence and explosions. The blasts occurred at around 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) in and around a pool hall in the Al-Amel neighborhood of the capital, an interior ministry official said late Saturday.

Cheney's anthrax false flag chickens come home to roost: Colleague Disputes Case Against Anthrax Suspect 22 Apr 2010 A former Army microbiologist who worked for years with Bruce E. Ivins, whom the F.B.I. has blamed for the anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in 2001, told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that he believed it was impossible that the deadly spores had been produced undetected in Dr. Ivins’s laboratory, as the F.B.I. asserts. Asked by reporters after his testimony whether he believed that there was any chance that Dr. Ivins, who 'committed suicide' in 2008, had carried out the attacks, the microbiologist, Henry S. Heine, replied, "Absolutely not." At the Army’s biodefense laboratory in Maryland, where Dr. Ivins and Dr. Heine worked, he said, "among the senior scientists, no one believes it."

US may be weaponising space 24 Apr 2010 The weaponisation of space. This is what some critics are calling the recent launch by the United States Air Force (USAF) of an unmanned space shuttle called X-37B. The shuttle is 9 meters (29ft) long and has a 4.5 meter (15ft) wingspan and is, therefore, just under one quarter the size of a regular space shuttle. If it [unfortunately] returns to earth successfully, and the USAF has indicated it sees no reason why it should not, it will be the first autonomous launch and re-entry in US history.

Nato tankers attacked in Pakistan 24 Apr 2010 Twelve Nato oil tankers have been set alight and four policemen killed when unknown gunmen [aka US contractors] opened fire in Talagang, a town in Pakistan's Punjab province. Aslam Tarin, a Pakistani policeman, told Geo TV that the gunmen opened fire on the tankers and escaped after police returned fire.

Israeli fire injures six in Gaza 24 Apr 2010 Israeli forces injure six people, one seriously, attacking the people who had protested Tel Aviv's declaring great chunks of Gaza's arable land no-go area. The victims, hit by live Israeli rounds, were among the local residents and activists to gather around the restricted zone in central Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.

US drone attack kills 7 in Pakistan 24 Apr 2010 A US drone aircraft fires three missiles into the troubled northwestern Pakistan, killing at least seven people and injuring several others. According to Pakistani intelligence officials, the missiles landed in the country's North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border on Saturday.

Britain 'handed over Taleban suspects to torturers' in Afghanistan 21 Apr 2010 British Forces in Afghanistan handed over Taleban suspects to Afghan authorities who tortured them, it was alleged in the High Court yesterday. Public Interest Lawyers, which has previously worked on allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq, presented dossiers of testimony in London that it claims is part of a "dreadful and continuing story" of abuse. The allegations cover claims from nine of 410 prisoners that they were tortured after being transferred to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS). Their testimony includes claims of beating, electric shocks, sexual abuse, stress positions and sleep deprivation.

FDIC shuts 7 banks in Illinois 23 Apr 2010 Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks in Illinois, putting the number of U.S. bank failures this year at 57. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over four banks in Chicago: New Century Bank (CBAO), with $485.6 million in assets; Citizens Bank (CZMO)&Trust Company, with $77.3 million in assets; Broadway Bank, with $1.2 billion in assets; and Lincoln Park Savings Bank, with $199.9 million in assets.

Pope may face charges at US court 24 Apr 2010 The US Supreme Court may take legal action against the Pope over allegations that he conspired to conceal sex abuse charges brought against a Wisconsin priest. A case lodged by an alleged sex abuse victim has brought certain documents to prosecutors' attention that suggest the current Pope, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and two other officials, conspired to keep the case secret because the accused was a major church fundraiser.

Threats close Raul Grijalva's district offices 23 Apr 2010 Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has closed his Arizona offices after a man called and threatened to "blow everyone’s head off," his office said Friday. The man, who called Grijalva’s Tucson office twice, said he would then go to the southern border and "shoot any Mexicans that tried to come across," Grijalva spokesman Adam Sarvana said. Police were dispatched to protect the Tucson office, Sarvana said. He said no staffers have been injured and that the offices in Tucson and Yuma were closed as a precaution

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Pentagon Launches Mystery US Spacecraft --Launch is military project controlled by US Air Force Space Command - not NASA 23 Apr 2010 A top-secret rocket has been launched by the US military amid rumours its purpose is to perform experiments for a space weapons programme. Officially the project will test a new space shuttle, the X-37B... But the details of its payload, experiments and orbital operations have all been classified. The real purpose of the mission could be to position satellites and other types of surveillance, according to military and security sources.  A military use would explain why the Pentagon has invested up to hundreds of millions of dollars in the craft.

US claims progress in Iran sanctions 23 Apr 2010 As the US pushes for the imposition of crippling sanctions against Iran, a senior American official claims that Washington has made "significant progress" in negotiations. "If you look at where we were six months or so ago, it was very difficult to point to any common ground amongst all of the permanent members of the Security Council," Reuters quoted US Under-Secretary of State William Burns as saying in Cape Town on Friday.

La Gloria, swine flu's ground zero, is left with legacy of anger --Mexican village's controversial US-owned pig farms remain in operation 23 Apr 2010 A year ago, the discovery in Mexico of a new virus mixing pig, bird and human flu strains sparked a global panic: flights were cancelled, travellers put in quarantine and thousands of people hospitalised as pharmaceutical companies scrambled to prepare a vaccine... In La Gloria, Mexico, swine flu remains a divisive issue, bound up with simmering anger over a massive network of US-owned industrial pig farms in the area. The farms, owned by a subsidiary of the US pork giant Smithfield Foods, has long been a target of contamination lawsuits.

CITGO Receives 2009 Safety Recognition by the American Petroleum Institute 23 Apr 2010 The American Petroleum Institute (API) has awarded CITGO Petroleum Corporation with an Occupational Safety Performance Award for 2009. The award was announced during the 61st Annual Pipeline Conference in New Orleans. "As a company committed to the highest standards in safety, CITGO is honored to receive this prestigious award. The people of CITGO are also deeply committed to caring for our communities, our environment and each other. This dedication is in alignment with the principles of safety and environmental stewardship endorsed by our parent company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A (PDVSA), the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," commented Gustavo Velásquez, vice president supply and marketing.

Breaking: U.S.'s Toughest Immigration Law Is Signed in Arizona 23 Apr 2010 Gov. Jan Brewer (R) of Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country on Friday, aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The law, which opponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in the country in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime. It would also give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

Star Wars 2010? U.S. military launch space plane on maiden voyage... but its mission is top secret 23 Apr 2010 A top secret space plane developed by the US military has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its maiden voyage. Billed as a small shuttle, the unmanned X-37B heralds the next generation of space exploration. It will be the first craft to carry out an autonomous re-entry in the history of the US programme. But its mission - and its cost - remain shrouded in secrecy. The Air Force said the launch was a success but would give no further details.